Major McKinley: William McKinley and the Civil War
(1996)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Kent State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 1996
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781612772387 (electronic bk.) MWT11753750, 1612772382 (electronic bk.) 11753750
LANGUAGE
English
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Major McKinley is the first complete account of the Civil War service of President William McKinley, the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House and the only one who served in the ranks. McKinley enlisted as a private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Later commanded by another future president, Rutherford B. Hayes) and was the regiment's commissary sergeant when his bravery at the Battle of Antietam led to a commission and an assignment to Hayes's military staff. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including McKinley's own paper and the diaries and letters of men who served with him, this book presents a new picture of McKinley as a soldier and provides a fresh appreciation of his later life as a veteran in politics

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